Value investing makes a come back

• The relationship between equity income, equity duration and value bias
• Income focus, with inherent value bias, acts as potential inflation hedge
• Negative real yields, and yield premium to gilts makes equity income investing attractive

 
The era of quantitative easing programmes have had a distorting effect on markets since the 2008 financial crisis has given value investors a torrid time in the past decade. The near-constant sugar-rush of liquidity has served to de-link valuations from underlying fundamentals prompting a huge bias towards growth. While pockets of investors have been braced for a long-expected correction that has never really materialised, the recent sharp increase in inflation may constitute an inflection point of sorts. In inflationary periods and when interest rates rise, the time horizon for future discounting shrinks, leaving equities exposed.
Income-yielding shares have an inherent value-bias, owing to the types of company that pay steady dependable dividend).  This provides a measure of inflation protection both in absolute terms and relative to nominal bonds.

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